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Auguste

Auguste

See also: auguste

French

Proper noun

Auguste

  1. Augustus , the Roman emperor.
  2. A male given name.

German

Proper noun

Auguste

  1. A female given name, cognate to Augusta.

Latin

Noun

Auguste

  1. vocative singular of Augustus

auguste

auguste

See also: Auguste

English

Noun

auguste (plural augustes)

  1. (theater) A kind of clown.
    • 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F (Penguin 2004), page 93:
      It had been used for clownish mock-disappearences, one auguste looking for another through endlessly circling blackness, an apparatus not now much in use.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oɡyst/

Etymology 1

Borrowing from Latin augustus. Doublet of août.

Adjective

auguste m, f (plural augustes)

  1. august; noble, stately

Etymology 2

From German (dumme) August.

Noun

auguste m (plural augustes)

  1. A type of clown with a white makeup.

Italian

Adjective

auguste

  1. Feminine plural form of augusto

Latin

Adjective

auguste

  1. vocative masculine singular of augustus

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